Poison -- a thread for the lovers and the haters

at that time, they are so resolutely bubblegum that I find it hard to people don't like them...no machoness to get in the way of all the pop hooks...also, I luv CC Deville as a lead player, much more tuneful and less wanky than lots of the era, and when he was wanky it had a certain "hey ma look what I can do!" gooniness that is infectious....like he didn't take it seriously enough to really think of it as anything more than making cool noises....and CC's voice! I mean best speaking voice ever! He sounds like some cigarrette inhaling, grizzled 50s New Yawk diner waitress! (and looks like one too!)

Also, I was in Jr. High at the time and have many fond memories of all the girls in my grade dancing to them at school dances. they were really good for that.....

All this said, they got worse and worse every album, more "serious" and less fun and they thought they were like a real band or something...with some exception like "every rose" and the gooooorgeous and melancholy springsteen thang "fallen angel" (which no one seems to like as much as I do)...

M@tt OTM.

They're the Yellow#5 of Rock.

Rikki Rocket I kiss U!

I HAVE ERECTION!

So in summation, um, Poison: no good.

Thank you for casting your votes.

The Flaming Lips (back in their better days) dedicated two songs on their Oh My Gawd.... album to C.C. Deville.

(making jackoff motion)

?! really! Were they being funny or were they admirers?

"The C.C. in the 'Ode to C.C.' songs is the guy in the band Poison..?? I still think he's great!..." Wayne

Don't do crack, it's a ghetto drug

By the way, in order to be completely unironic from now on, you might want to not call somebody unintelligible in a sentence where you use incorrect grammar: IT'S 'YOU'RE', YOU FUCKTARD!

uh, did it ever occur to you that db and myself may have actually have heard of the NY Dolls and listened to them and be quite aware of their influence on the look of glam rock and might just actually want to talk about Poison without some toolbox bothering us? Fucking find a NY Dolls thread if you want to talk about them....or fuck there's prob. even five threads on solo David Johansen by now if that's yr bag...

god, you have this way of making these completely banal and cliched observations and then acting like you're the first person on earth that's ever said it....

Assume uh = x = a troll. Act accordingly.

You, like the other peons on this board, are really good at drawing inferences that aren't there and making stupid assumptions. But keep on, you're amusing me. :)

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Seriously, uh, get off the crack.

It's easy to categorize and thus distance yourself from something, right? Well, carry on then, if your ignorance makes you feel better.

you idiot.

I mentioned the New York Dolls as an aside, since they did the whole sleaze-drag thing earlier than Poison did the whole OMG WE'RE WOMEN thing. But since you all take everything entirely too seriously here, I'll figure you missed that too.

fyi, this is the only nick I've used in the last four days other than "censored" to my knowledge.

HI DERE

Anyway, Let Us Now Praise Famous Rocketts:

http://www.musicmayhem.com/rikki9.jpg

also wierd music thing on that show: the "slobby" one (wears baseball hat and lives in their carriage house and works as a security guard) wears a Son Volt shirt with amazing regularity!

THE THINGS YOU LEARN WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE CABLE, BUT STILL WaTCH A SHITLOAD OF TV!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7320287.stm
Rikki Rockett, drummer for US rock band Poison, has been arrested for rape in Los Angeles.

Rockett - real name Richard Ream - was held after a woman filed a complaint claiming she had been raped at a casino in Neshoba, Mississippi.

A police spokesperson said prosecutors were deciding whether the star would be sent back to Mississippi.

The 46-year-old musician, who was unavailable for comment, has been released from police custody.

The band, who are best known for releasing the song Talk Dirty to Me, was founded in the 1980s by Rockett and singer Bret Michaels.

Okay 3 things:

1. Fuck fucking rapists.
2. I had been under the assumption he was gay. Not that gay people can't rape women and not that straight men can't wear eyeliner well into middle age, but...
3. Entirely unrelated but, http://youtube.com/watch?v=F14xVL5SwPI

in true ilm style this shouldve been a rikki rockett whats on yr ipod thread

Rikki no, say it isn't true :(

(yes, innocent til proven guilty obviously. we'll see. Still, just the idea really fucking bums me out.)

Wow, I totally forgot about Uh. Painful to read back.

Maybe he will get to make hamburgers in prison.

Wow, a guy named Dick Ream arrested for rape. The pornographer in me is doubled over laughing.

in true ilm style this shouldve been a rikki rockett whats on yr ipod thread

Most suitable answer = "I Hate Every Bone In Your Body But Mine

Do lovers of Poison exist?

They must be melodic enough for you.

Latebloomer's link from another thread
http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=c7127091-b8d1-450c-a59d-f1af8d346c45&entry=index&loc=interstitialskip

Poison's haters might enjoy seeing Bret Michaels get flattened by some scenery at the Tony Awards:

http://www.queerty.com/the-tony-awards-talking-point-bret-michaels-falls-on-his-ass-20090607/

the close-up view is better IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JocPcYBCN18&annotation_id=annotation_823724&feature=iv

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

gotta love that fade

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1613466/20090608/bret_michaels.jhtml

still love that just blaze remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM43vA3BjQw

It's just really entertaining the way he's like, swaggering back while we all watch this thing descending straight onto his head

(I feel for the guy with his broken nose and all, but I hope he'd agree that if you are going to break a nose in a mishap like this, it might as well be as hilarious as possible for everyone else's enjoyment)

Also it should happen at the Tonys. The lead singer of Poison should get injured at the Tonys

lolz followed by Stockard Channing?!?

Well DONE

it is quite nearly a perfect storm of hilariousness

also it is a warning to fans of hair-metal: you think Broadway is lame? yeah well those people know how to HIT THEIR MARKS

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20363506,00.html?hpt=T2

^^brain hemorrhage btw

Poison decreases sperm count.
They're the Yellow#5 of Rock.

― uh (eetface), Wednesday, May 5, 2004 8:29 PM

???????

LOS ANGELES – Bret Michaels is in critical condition suffering from a brain hemorrhage, his publicist said Friday. Joann Mignano confirmed a report on People magazine's website Friday that said the former Poison frontman was rushed to intensive care late Thursday after a severe headache. The report said doctors discovered bleeding at the base of his brain stem.

Mignano said tests are being conducted and that no further information was available.

The 47-year-old reality TV star had an emergency appendectomy last week after complaining of stomach pains. He said on his website that though the surgery "has taken its toll," doctors expected him to make a full recovery.

Michaels starred on the VH1 dating show "Rock of Love" and is a contestant on Donald Trump's NBC reality show, "The Celebrity Apprentice."

Trump said in a statement Friday that he was "deeply saddened" to hear of Michaels' condition.

"He's a great competitor and champion, and I hope he will be fine," Trump said.

are any celebrities safe?

"The 47-year-old reality TV star" i know Poison are pretty forgettable but c'mon now, give him some respect while he goes through this.

Livin' my life, sin after sin...oops.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/936808_3190062848406_226890525_n.jpg

Mah eyes!

Not a bad chorus in search of better trash.

Talk Dirty To Me is pretty decent but man this is a terrible band. Bret Michaels is a corny enough frontman to make Mark Slaughter look like Marc Bolan.

open up and say arse

Oh my god look what the feral cat that lives in the backwoods where Mandy was a documentary dragged in.

This is what C.C. Deville from Poison looks like now?! He looks like he's in a band I would possibly go see?? pic.twitter.com/zTTsH8iPtw

— Nacho Man Sandy Cabbage (@TreeBeerd) June 6, 2022

make sure to tape the setlist to his forehead and put a mirror in front of him

Maybe him, Kip Winger, Jeff Pilson and Bobby Blotzer are starting a new Cascadian black metal project.

hey Rikki Rockett!

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rikki-rockett-homophobic-rock/?fbclid=IwAR2f8kfB_t3LiqQ8hwIGEfy7JIDSQ7xDVE8Yj3A9a0yJdHjpXs4sdQNZNfY

kinda cool to see from someone who theoretically has a lot more fear of pushback from his audience than most

“What we were doing was a social, cultural movement,” Rockett recalled. “It really set America and the world on fire in a lot of ways”

Um